What are the underlying social determinants of health that impact the 3 behaviors in the 3-4-50 model? What are the health disparities observed from the data in your community (city or county)?

Peruse the following Web sites:

County Health Rankings
Community Commons
HealthyPeople.gov
San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency
Data.gov Data Catalog

The concept behind the 3-4-50 model is that there are three unhealthy behaviors that influence four chronic diseases, which leads to 50% of all deaths. The percentage of deaths can vary by community or place. For example, in some communities, this can be 3-4-63 or 3-4-45.
As you peruse the Web sites above, respond to the following questions:

How do the 3 behaviors in the 3-4-50 model impact the 4 diseases in your community?
Can you find the mortality of these 4 diseases in your community?

If you can, what is the percentage of deaths caused by these 4 diseases for your community?

What are the underlying social determinants of health that impact the 3 behaviors in the 3-4-50 model?
What are the health disparities observed from the data in your community (city or county)?
Physical activity, or lack thereof, is 1 of the 3 behaviors that impacts the 4 diseases. What is the walkability index for your neighborhood (area)?

Does this support the data as they relate to health conditions that are impacted by physical activity?

From the data and the information you gathered, what recommendations might you have for your community?

What is a group? Describe two different types of groups. How are groups formed? Describe 2 different theories of how groups are formed, then choose which theory you feel best describes group development.

 
Module 1 Assignment: Groups
Overview:For this assignment, you will create a visual presentation about groups. You will have the option of creating an infographic, brochure, or a slide (PowerPoint) presentation. Please follow the instructions below, and be sure to adhere to APA formatting guidelines.For more information about APA formatting, please visit the APA Resources folder in the Student Resources course menu tab.*To view the grading rubric for this assignment, click on the name of the assignment and click “View Rubric”Instructions:For this assignment, you will describe types of groups and group development theories as well as explain the benefits of studying group dynamics. Complete the following:

Create one of the following:

Infographic
Brochure
Slide Presentation

Answer the following in your presentation:

What is a group?
Describe two different types of groups.
How are groups formed?
Describe 2 different theories of how groups are formed, then choose which theory you feel best describes group development.
Explain the benefits of understanding group dynamics.
Include narrative and effective images.

If you obtain information or images from another resource, be sure to properly cite your work using APA format.

Submit your file to this assignment (click on the title of the assignment above).

If you have any questions, please ask your professor.Resources:See the document below for resources on how to create an infographic, brochure, or slide presentation: 
  ‘How To’ Resources for Multimedia Content.pdf        (ATTACHED) 

Now imagine you are leading your own group session. How would you go about handling a difficult situation with a disruptive group member? How would you elicit participation in your group? What would you anticipate finding in the different phases of group therapy? What do you see as the benefits and challenges of group therapy?  

In a 3- to 4-page paper, identify the video you selected and address the following:

What group therapy techniques were demonstrated? How well do you believe these techniques were demonstrated?
What evidence from the literature supports the techniques demonstrated? 
What did you notice that the therapist did well?
Explain something that you would have handled differently.
What is an insight that you gained from watching the therapist handle the group therapy?
Now imagine you are leading your own group session. How would you go about handling a difficult situation with a disruptive group member? How would you elicit participation in your group? What would you anticipate finding in the different phases of group therapy? What do you see as the benefits and challenges of group therapy?  
Support your reasoning with at least three peer-reviewed, evidence-based sources, and explain why each of your supporting sources is considered scholarly. Attach the PDFs of your sources.

Describe your personal commitment to positive social change in your community as a health professional. Explain how your Walden experience might have strengthened your ability to advocate for social change in your community.

As noted in the Learning Resources this week, health professionals can be leaders of social change. Consider the story of Paul Amigh, a student and teaching assistant at Walden:
My name is Paul Amigh (pronounced Ah-me’), and I am a student in the PhD Public Health program at Walden University with a concentration in Epidemiology and a Teaching Assistant for the School of Health Sciences bachelor?s degree programs. I have obtained my entire college experience from Walden University, and it has changed my life and given me the desire to change the lives of others.
I am a U.S. Army veteran who graduated from the Academy of Health Sciences, attended vocational school in Central PA for my L.P.N. license, and hold a BS in Public Health with a concentration in Health Informatics from Walden University. I have spent my life in service of my country and others working as medic, a prison nurse, travel nurse, and as a charge nurse in an advanced Alzheimer?s unit. Feeling a greater need to do more for my community and improve the lives of others, it was my bachelor?s degree from Walden University that gave me the opportunity to work in education. I began teaching medical assisting, medical billing and coding, and health informatics classes at a local technical school in Central Pennsylvania, but I still felt I could do more.
I created a local chapter of SkillsUSA and began to train students in leadership and skills competitions related to their chosen vocational career path. It was here I discovered students just need someone to believe in them. Spending a few hours each day training and working with these students to improve upon the soft skills employers are looking for in communication, conflict resolution, critical thinking, and fundraising the entire cost of membership and travel, I created Champions at Work. Over the last six years, I have personally trained and mentored more than 50 Pennsylvania State Gold Medalists and trained fifteen National Medalists, with five of them becoming national champions!
This October I stepped down from teaching and have been appointed as the new Public Health Program Administrator of Western Pennsylvania for the PA Department of Health?s Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program. This special Supplemental Nutrition Program provides Federal grants to States for supplemental foods, healthcare referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk. Established as a permanent program in 1974, WIC is considered the premiere public health program for the Department of Agriculture.
My dream is to not only complete my PhD from Walden University, but to someday call Walden University my employer and continue to work with some of the most amazing professors and mentors I have ever had the pleasure of learning from, getting to know them on a personal level, and changing the lives of more people just as Walden University changed mine.
RESOURCES
 
 
As you prepare for this Discussion:

Reflect on how you would like to harness all you have learned to be an agent for social change in your community as a healthcare professional.
View several videos from the Scholars of Change website.

BY DAY 4
 
 
Post a thoughtful response to the following:

Describe your personal commitment to positive social change in your community as a health professional.
Explain how your Walden experience might have strengthened your ability to advocate for social change in your community.
Explain two ways that your Program of Study might be strengthened to enhance student awareness of social change in the health field.

Select a B-2-B firm such as FedEx, Apple, IBM, Boeing, GE, or Caterpillar and assess its business model. Develop a list of particular skills, resources, and strategies that are especially important to the selected firm’s strategic position. Give particular attention to those skills, resources, or characteristics that competitors would have the most difficulty in matching. Then comment on how smart, connected products/services might be particularly useful for providing value for customers and differentiating the chosen company from its competitors.

Select a B-2-B firm such as FedEx, Apple, IBM, Boeing, GE, or Caterpillar and assess its business model. Develop a list of particular skills, resources, and strategies that are especially important to the selected firm’s strategic position. Give particular attention to those skills, resources, or characteristics that competitors would have the most difficulty in matching. Then comment on how smart, connected products/services might be particularly useful for providing value for customers and differentiating the chosen company from its competitors.

Explain what is meant by the terms fluid balance, electrolyte balance, and acid-base balance, and discuss their importance for homeostasis. List the most frequent threats to acid-base balance, and explain how the body responds when the pH of body fluids varies outside normal limits.

  Discussion for week 5 
Explain what is meant by the terms fluid balance, electrolyte balance, and acid-base balance, and discuss their importance for homeostasis. List the most frequent threats to acid-base balance, and explain how the body responds when the pH of body fluids varies outside normal limits.
Fluid balance:  Fluid balance is an important aspect of homeostatis which refers to the maintenance of correct amount of water in the body of an organism. The fluid balance relies on the principle that water lost from the body via respiration, urination, defection or sweating  should be equal to the water gained into the body via  drinking or eating (National Library of Medicine, n.d.).
electrolyte balance: this refers to the correct concentration of electrolytes such as sodium ion,, calcium ions, potassium ions, chloride ions, phosphate ions and magnesium ions in the blood, urine as well as body fluids.
Acid base balance: It refers to a balance between the acidity and alkalinity of the blood plasma by exchange of hydrogen ions.  
Fluid balance, electrolyte balance and acid base balance are all important aspects for homeostatis. Homeostatis refers to the regulatory system of our body that maintains variable factors such as water, electrolyte and acid base composition of body fluids nearly constant. Fluid balance helps to maintain a balance of water in our body (Libretexts,2020). Osmolarity is regulated by intake and excretion of ions from the water. Acid base balance helps to maintain proper pH of body fluids. When the body fluids become acidic as a result of metabolic activities, exchange of hydrogen ions takes place such that a balance is maintained.
The most frequent threats to acid base balance are: Acidosis and Alkalosis. Acid base balance is evaluated by pH, carbon dioxide (acid) level and bicarbonate (base) level on the blood. Lungs, kidneys and buffer systems in our body help to maintain the acid base balance. Carbon dioxide level increases in the blood due to excretion of wastes of metabolic processes.  This leads to decrease in pH. The lungs  immediately remove carbon dioxide from the blood via signaling from the brain which increase the speed of breathing. This helps to restore the  correct pH of blood. The kidneys also excrete out excess acids or bases to maintain correct pH. Carbonic acid and bicarbonate ion is a buffer system that helps maintain correct pH of blood.
References
Libretexts. (2020). 26: fluid, electrolyte, and Acid-Base balance. Medicine LibreTexts. https://med.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anatomy_and_Physiology/Anatomy_and_Physiology_1e_(OpenStax)/Unit_5%3A_Energy_Maintenance_and_Environmental_Exchange/26%3A_Fluid_Electrolyte_and_Acid-Base_Balance
National Library of Medicine. (n.d.). Fluid and electrolyte balance. https://medlineplus.gov

Consider the use of communication tools and checklists in your clinical area. Identify areas for improvement in communicating critical patient information to the appropriate provider. Discuss errors or near misses in your clinical area and how it was handled.

Consider the use of communication tools and checklists in your clinical area.

Identify areas for improvement in communicating critical patient information to the appropriate provider.
Discuss errors or near misses in your clinical area and how it was handled.
Identify education that would support improved teamwork and decrease the chance of near misses or errors.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

As you have learned, public policy is shaped by many factors and therefore evolves over time. For this assignment, you will focus on a specific advocacy organization and identify a policy or law that connects to the chosen organization. Identify one specific policy or law that your chosen organization is currently supporting. Provide information about the policy or law as well as why the organization is supporting it. Be sure to include information on how the organization is supporting that policy or law.

 
As you have learned, public policy is shaped by many factors and therefore evolves over time. For this assignment, you will focus on a specific advocacy organization and identify a policy or law that connects to the chosen organization. Identify one specific policy or law that your chosen organization is currently supporting. Provide information about the policy or law as well as why the organization is supporting it. Be sure to include information on how the organization is supporting that policy or law.This will give you the opportunity to see this evolution within an actual organization and how it affects issues of politics, ethics, integrity, and society.
Your paper should be 5–6 pages in length. Choose an advocacy organization local to you. Then provide the following information:

Identify your chosen organization and supply a brief history of it.
Identify and briefly (in 1–2 paragraphs) explain the problem(s) or issue(s) that the organization is intended to address.
Define the stated mission goal(s) of the organization. Has its mission goal(s) changed over time? If so, how?
Identify one specific policy or law that your chosen organization is currently supporting. Provide information about the policy or law as well as why the organization is supporting it. Be sure to include information on how the organization is supporting that policy or law.
Thinking about the information above, in your opinion, has the organization been successful in achieving its mission goal(s)? Why or why not

Use at least four sources to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your sources page at least one time within your assignment. For help with research, writing, and citing sources, access the library or review library guides.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The library is your home for SWS assistance, including citations and formatting. Please refer to the Library site for all support. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

Evaluate the relationship between the evolution of public policy and issues concerning politics, ethics, integrity, and society.

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Discuss why interprofessional collaboration is important for the improvement of patient outcomes.

 250 words not including 1 reference. All posts should be supported by a minimum of one scholarly resource, ideally within the last 5 years. Journals and websites must be cited appropriately. Citations and references must adhere to APA format. 
 
Provide an example of interprofessional collaboration that was or might be utilized to improve patient outcomes.

Discuss why interprofessional collaboration is important for the improvement of patient outcomes.
As a nurse, you may encounter incivility, lateral violence, or outright bullying in the workplace. Provide an example of these behaviors from your experience or a news story.
Discuss the nurse?s role and a leader’s role in the incivility example.

Describe your clinical experienceas a student advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) at a family health clinic treating pediatric patients for this week. Did you face any challenges, any success? If so, what were they?

Describe your clinical experienceas a student advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) at a family health clinic treating pediatric patients for this week.

Did you face any challenges, any success? If so, what were they?
Describe the assessment of a patient, detailing the signs and symptoms (S&S), assessment, plan of care, and at least 3 possible differential diagnosis with rationales.
Mention the health promotion intervention for this patient.
What did you learn from this week’s clinical experience that can beneficial for you as an advanced practice nurse?
Support your plan of care with the current peer-reviewed research guideline.

Submission Instructions:

Post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.